Stabbing death ruled justifiable homicide

1:40 PM,
May 23, 2013

Baxter County sheriff's investigators work the scene of a stabbing death that occurred on Dec. 5 at Midway.

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Bulletin Staff

Prosecutor Ron Kincade has ruled the Dec. 5 stabbing death of Roy Lee Hogans as a justifiable homicide. Hogans, 20, died during a disturbance at the Melinda Lawhead residence at Midway.

According to a news release from Sheriff John Montgomery, Hogans was involved in an altercation about 10:30 p.m. Dec. 5 with Kenneth Carl Kitch, 44, his girlfriend's father. Kitch was injured and taken into the house, but went back outside and a second fight occurred, according to the sheriff. Montgomery said that during the second fight, Hogans brandished a knife and during the course of it he was stabbed ...